[@colinabsolutely Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

My guess is that your box doesn’t support PHP mail. I had the same problem, but I integrated users with my WordPress install so I got in with my admin account.

There is an SMTP plugin floating around but I haven’t gotten it to work, and it doesn’t support SSL. For now I’ve simply replaced the register link on bbpress with the link to my WP register page. (WP has a host of smtp plugins that work great).

That’s probably more than you needed to know but maybe I was able to preempt a few issues you might run into.